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> The final reason for the turn against objectivity is commercial. The shift away from partisanship a century ago was driven partly by advertisers. Today, as ad
by JanneVee 6y ago
> The final reason for the turn against objectivity is commercial. The shift away from partisanship a century ago was driven partly by advertisers. Today, as ad revenues leak away to search engines and social networks, newspapers have come to rely more on paying readers. Unlike advertisers, readers love opinion.
Readers love opinion? How do they know this? Is it because Ezra Klein said so in the following sentences, that people want to be coddled by their media?
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoIt seems obvious. Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham are the top rated “news” programs. All are opinion shows, not straight news.
- JanneVee 6y agoJust because some opinion shows "top rated" it doesn't necessarily mean that "news reader" audience like to be treated the same way. Right? Somewhere I would like to have a little more qualification to that a "reading audience likes to read opinions".